Steve Elkington, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student, rides a mechanical bull at the Arab Cultural Club’s 6th annual “American Street Fest” held yesterday at the Mettler-Tinsley Bishop courtyard on the College Avenue campus.

Black women have been portrayed as both marginalized and empowered, excluded and included, said Erica Edwards, an associate professor at the University of California, Riverside. Edwards presented her ideas at a talk titled “Living Text for a Dying Nation: Black Sexuality and Textuality after Empire” yesterday in the Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett building on Douglass campus.

Erica Edwards, an associate professor at the University of California, Riverside, discussed the depictions of black women’s sexuality yesterday at the Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building on Douglass campus.

The 9/11 terrorist attacks have left an indelible mark on the United States, resulting in discrimination against the Muslim population in specific. A recent film explored the ways that Muslims have suffered as a result of Islamophobia, or prejudice against Muslims, in the post-9/11 era.

At this year’s Edible Books Festival, a princess slept upon a bed of marble pound cake and chocolate swirl cake. The princess was part of one entry at the second annual “Eat Your Words!: An Edible Book Festival,” held yesterday at Alexander Library on the College Avenue campus. The event featured art made of food that represents the participant’s favorite book. All New Jersey residents are eligible to enter.

Using English recorders, bagpipes, a guitar and the lute, musicians produce a sound that would resemble English music from the 17th century. At an event, entitled “The Early History of the Protest Song: Libels, Ballads and Politics in Seventeenth Century England,” a mixture of historians and musicians spoke about and recreated early English political songs to recapture the political meanings and the musical sounds of the early modern English protest song.

Health care is a hot topic that plagues the United States. With the political disputes that have emerged from the Affordable Care Act, new health care services are continually being revisited. James Robinson, a visiting fellow in the Division of Outcomes and Effectiveness Research at Weill Cornell Medical College, shared the implications of reference pricing to hospitals at a seminar yesterday at the Institute For Health, Health Care Policy And Aging Research on the College Avenue campus.

James Robinson, a visiting fellow in the Division of Outcomes and Effectiveness Research at Weill Cornell Medical College, speaks about health care at the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research on the College Avenue campus yesterday.

When Jeff Wilhelms saw three impoverished children in Guatemala kneeling on the ground outside doing their schoolwork, he broke down and cried. The family lived in an adobe structure not much larger than an American automobile, with no furniture, toilet or kitchen. They slept on dirt floors and cooked in what looked like a chicken coop attached to the side of their home.

Members of the Rutgers chapter of International Hands in Service mix cement to build medical facilities in Guatemala as a part of their service trips, which include helping communities by means of technological advancements and opportunities, basic education and construction.

Members of the Rutgers chapter of International Hands in Service mix cement to build medical facilities in Guatemala as a part of their service trips, which include helping communities by means of technological advancements and opportunities, basic education and construction.

Asian-American intellectuals were previously more concerned with racist portrayals of Asians in cartoons and their second-class status as immigrants in the 20th century. Now, their focus has shifted to Asian-Americans’ contributions to American culture. The fourth annual Asian-American Studies Undergraduate Symposium presented undergraduate Asian-American research yesterday at Murray Hall on the College Avenue campus.